Backup two internal drives onto one external drive
I have a desktop with an HDD I've used for several months. I want to add an SSD, clone the HDD (which is still mostly empty) onto it and make the SSD the boot drive. I've heard that I should backup the HDD before adding the SSD. After getting both internal drives working, I want to back up both of them regularly. Is it possible and practical to backup an internal SSD and HDD onto a single external HDD?


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Thanks! That's nice to know. I've never backed up a hard drive before so there may be important questions I'm not asking, or maybe I'm asking stuff that's awfully basic, but for now could you tell me what the process would be for restoring either or both of these drives if the need arose?
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Basically, you'd use your offline bootable recovery media to boot into Acronis outside of Windows. You'd pick the recovery options, navigate to the backup file and select it. YOu'd then select the destination drive to restore that image to and that's really it if you're restoring an image to the same hardware. You could easily test this be removing the original hard drive and restoring the image to a different drive for practice. That way, if anything goes wrong, you just pop in the original drive without worry of accidentally overwriting it or something else while you practice.
Check out these videos...
02 - SunGod2009 - How to backup and restore using Acronis True image - YouTube
04 - Britec - How To Restore Windows 10 from a System Image - YouTube
More good videos in the sticky as well... https://forum.acronis.com/forum/117004
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